For many years, Nita was a Vice President at Security Pacific Bank (now Bank of America).  As a global executive in the International Private Banking division, she provided financial advice to high net worth clients in Asia, Mexico, South America, and Europe. She draws on diverse passions, including her love for the South of France, speaking, singing, teaching, and traveling.  Her writing includes contributions to books on autism, corporate training and marketing (as well as the historical fiction you'll discover in this website). In addition to the above, Nita also works with her husband Douglas and a team of professionals who are committed to helping entrepreneurs and artists profit from their creative endeavors. Their business, Hughes Associates, was established on the island of Maui (Hawaii), but the partners in the firm can now be found in cities around the globe. Nita's books often involve successful professionals who find themselves drawn into dramatic events - some that reach back hundreds of years - revealing mysteries with the potential to transform our world today.     Her books explore what happens when the influence of political power and religious dogma meet up with spiritual awareness  - a kind of wisdom that is beginning to find expression in everyday examples of individual growth and the empowerment of committed relationships.